Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust. Groups
Lot 5217 Session 19 (4:30pm Friday) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust. Groups
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $650
GROUP OF FIVE TO POW: 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45; Australian Prisoner of War Medal. NX30255 E.A.W.Tubman on all medals. The first four medals impressed, the last pantograph engraved. Very fine - extremely fine.
Elmo Alexander William Tubman, farmer, born 18Dec1900 at Hargraves, NSW; Enl.25Jun1940 at Paddington, Sydney, NSW; ill with pneumonia and influenza 09Jul-19Aug1940; TOS 1RAR 17Sep1940; TOS 1st A/A Trg Bn 19Nov1940; Trf to 2/15 Fd Regt 22Nov1940; to Fitters & Mechanics Course No 28 10Mar1941; Emb.29Jul1941 for service in Malaya; Disemb.15Aug1941 at Singapore; POW Malaya 16Feb1942; worked on Burma-Thailand railway; recovered from Japanese in Thailand 20Aug1945; Emb.29Oct1945 from Singapore; RTA 20Nov1945; Disch.05Feb1946 as Bombardier ex 2/15 Fd Regt, at own request on compassionate grounds; Died 17Apr1963 and buried at Narromine General Cemetery, NSW.
With research and copies of Service File and photocopies of photos of his and his wife's graves.
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